Cabinet for liners and blades for linotype-machines.



No. 885,777. v I PATENTED APR. 28, 1908. T. F. MULDOON.

CABINET FOR LINERS AND BLADES FOR LINOTYPB' MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 17. 1907.

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APPLICATION FILED DBO.17. 1907.

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CABINET FOR LINERS AND BLADES FOR LINOTYPE-MACI-IINES.

$pecification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 28, 1908.

Application filed December 17, 1907. Serial No. 406,885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS F. MULDOON, a citizen of the United States, residing 'at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cabinets for Liners and Blades for Linotype-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a cabinet for receiving and retaining liners and theirassociated ejector-blades employed in linotype machines. These liners and blades are usually found promiscuously piled about, so that when it is desired to arrange the machine to set a certain length line of type matter the entire mass of liners and blades must be searched to find not only the correct parts but to'find those to correspond to the point type used on the job.

The object of this invention is to provide a cabinet having compartments both for the liners and blades which are arranged to register so that the liners and corresponding blades may be kept in proper relationship which arrangement, in addition to protecting the liners and blades from rough usage, will effect a great saving in time and afford convenience to the operator.

With these objects in viewI provide a cabinet as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my cabinet, showing the liners and their associated ejector-blades occupying their respective positions within said cabinet. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the op osite ends of the cabinet in which the midd e portion is broken away, to more clearly show the construction of the cabinet. the cabinet. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a single set of liners- In the drawings, 1 represents a rectangularly shaped box or cabinet provided with the hinged lids 3 and 4 which close the cabinet on the sides whereby the liners and blades are made accessible. The cabinet may be formed of wood or other suitable material and may be made to present a neat appearance. The cabinet is provided with a horizontally extending floor 5 which is let in a distance below its up er edges slightly in excess of the width of the liners and divides the cabinet into two major compartments. See Fig. 3. The major compartment above the floor 5 is subdivided into a series of minor compartments, adapted to receive the liners,

Fig. 3 is a cross section of by means of the dividing strips 7. There is a sufficient number of these minor compartments to care for all liners that will enable the making of type-lines including from 4 to 30 ems, which is generally the scope or capacity of a modern linotype machine. Fig. 4 illustrates a pair of liners for a modern linotype machine, and consists of the members 10 and 11. The members or stubs 10, employed at the heads of the type-lines, are all of equal length, While the remaining members 11 are made in various lengths, usually increasing at the rate of one em per line. Fig. 1 clearly shows the orderly arrangement of the liners reposing in their respective minor compartments. Each of the minor compartments are of a sufficient width to provide for additional liners of the same ength but of different thicknesses, in order to conform to the point type employed. As the liners are numbered in numerical order, numbers corresponding thereto are stamped, or otherwise indicated, as shown at A, in the strip 15, forming a part of the body of the cabinet, to designate the several minor compartments. By this arrangement the .operator can instantly find the exactliner or liners he may desire.

. As shownin Fig. 3 of the drawings, I provide a pair of guards or keepers 18 which extend transversely through the lower ortion of the minor compartments, and stan parallel with the sides of the cabinet. The members 10 and 1 1 of the liners are provided with a notch 12, which are necessary to enable them to properly plerform their function in the linotype mac 'ne, and these notches 12 are employed when the liners are not in use to kee them' edged and'in their respective en s of the compartments by placing the liners into said compartments so that said notches will hook over the adjacent keeper 18.

When the desired pair of liners have been inserted into their respective positions within the linotype machine to produce a type-line of a certain length, the proper ejector-blade must, of necessity, be inserted into the machine, so that when the lineof type has been cast it can properly be ejected from the mold. The ejector-blade must be of a width to equal the length of the type-line that the associated liners will make. Care must, therefore, be taken to keep the ejector-blades in proper position with their associated liners. To this end I divide the lower major compartment of the cabinet, beneath the floor 5,

into a series of minor com" artments by means of the separating wa s 20. These walls are arranged so as to stand in alinement with the dividing strips 7, so as to cause the minor compartments in both the major compartments to register. The lower compartments receive the ejector-blades 25, which are associated with the liners in the u per minor compartments. The ejectorbFades are also numbered in numerical order and numbers corresponding to them are stamped, or otherwise indicated, as shown at B, on the strip 15, similarly to those which indicate the compartments for retaining the liners, except that the increase in value of the numbers run in a direction opposite to those indicating the liner-retaining compartments. The arrangement of these numerals are such that the combined value of the numerals indicating two of the registering compartments equals thirty emsthe longest possible line to be set within the capacity of the machine.

The dividing strips 7 and the dividing walls 20 are provided with the thumb-notches 8 whereby the liners and blades are rendered more accessible.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided a cabinet ,to act as a repository for liners and blades for linotype machines, which is extremely simple in its arrangement, while its usefulness, for preserving the liners and blades against rough usage and in the saving of time when it is desired to use certain ones, is obvious.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is p l. A cabinet for holding liners and ejector blades for linotype machines comprising the body, said body being divided into two major compartments; one of said major compartments being divided into lesser compartments adapted to receive a pair of companion liners; the second major compartment being divided into lesser compartments, which register with the lesser compartments in the former major compartment, and adapted to receive the ejector blades belonging to their respective companion liners.

2. A cabinet for retaining liners and blades for linotype machines com rising the body, means for dividing said body into a plurality of major compartments, means for dividing one of said major compartments into a series of minor compartments, said series of minor compartments adapted to receive the liners in numerically arranged order, means arranged within said series of minor compartments to hold the liners in their respective ends of said compartments, and means for dividing the other major compartment into a series of minor compartments which are adapted to receive the blades, of the associated liners, in numerically arranged order.

3. A cabinet for retaining liners and blades for linotype machines comprising the body, means for dividing said body into a plurality of major compartments, means for dividing one of said major compartments into a series of minor compartments, said series of minor compartments adapted. to receive the liners in numerically arranged order, means arranged within said series of minor com part ments to hold the liners in their respective ends of said compartments, means dividing the other major compartment into a series of minor compartments which are adapted to receive the ejector-blades, of the associated liners, in numerically arranged order, and means consisting of numerals, or similar indicators, arranged, in invert order according to their values, along the edge of said minor compartments.

In witness whereof, I, have hereunto set my hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana, this, 14th day of December, A. 1). one thousand nine hundred and seven.

THOMAS F. MULDOON. [14. s]

Witnesses:

F. W. WoERNER, L. B. WOERNER. 

